Yisrael Harel is one of the founders of Moetzet Yesha and has been one of the leaders of the settlement movement for decades. What he writes here is so painfully obvious that I regret that it even needs to be said. We can live, albeit wounded and vulnerable, without Netzarim; we can't live for long without an army.

The only line I disagree with is his claim that the problem with Kachniks is their failure to agree that the State represents the beginning of the redemption. It might or might not be, but the insistence of certain people -- like Harel -- that they know that it is, is part of the problem not part of the solution.